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Not disputing anything you say (although I will point out that the housing prices in Woodside Park are comparable to those in Carderock).  Just saying - with accuracy as I am there, doing this right now - that there is in fact, a population of high-achieving, motivated students at Einstein.  My kids were/are among them.

And I guarantee you that a qualified applicant to a top college from Einstein is far more likely to be admitted to that school than an equally-qualified applicant from Whitman, because such students are a dime a dozen at the latter and not so much at the former.  That is a fact.[/quote]

Maybe, but the Whitman or Churchill kid admitted to a top college generally will feel much more comfortable surrounded by high-achieving peers than the Einstein kid who has been a big fish in the tiny pond.   At the top university I attended,  the kids from Whitman and Churchill tended to excel, while the kids from Silver Spring struggled and probably would have been better off at U. Md.   I'm sure there are some exceptions, but why take the risk?   [/quote]

Not our experience.  Our daughter (headed to med school this fall) did very well at a top college, graduating cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  So did her peers.

My husband, a physician, went to Wheaton High in the 70's, then to Ivies (for both college & med school).

If you don't have a child in the red zone, you don't know what you are talking about.[/quote]

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